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cited above, on page 37. The reference relating to the learning 

 of Moses, mentioned on page 17, is to Acts vii. 22 ; and that 

 which alludes to his meekness, is to Numbers xiii. 3. 



Page 19. Hf that shall view the writings of Macrobius orVarro. 



This passage occurs first in the Second Edition of The Com- 

 plete Angler, 1655 ; and the materials of it are taken, with little 

 alteration in the language, from lib. iv. sect. 6, p. 434, of Dr. 

 HakewilFs Apology, etc.; see the preceding list, No. 21. 

 Aurelius Macrobius was a Latin writer of the fourth century, 

 who is by some supposed to have been a Christian, and Cham- 

 berlain to the Emperor Theodosius II. His principal production 

 is the " Saturnalia Convivia," in seven books, consisting of a 

 miscellaneous collection of antiquities and criticisms, supposed 

 to have been derived from the conversation of some learned Ro- 

 mans, during the Saturnalian Festival. The circumstances 

 mentioned in the text will be found in lib. ii. cap. xi. of that 

 work. He also wrote a Commentary on Cicero's Somnium 

 Scipionis, and many other books which are now lost ; but his 

 latinity is often corrupt, as he was not born in a part of the Ro- 

 man Empire where the Latin language was spoken. The passage 

 taken from Varro will be found in his book. " De Re 

 Rustica,"lib. iii. cap. xvii. 



Page 19. A most learned Physician, Dr. Wliarton. 



Dr. Thomas Wharton was descended from an ancient family 

 in Yorkshire, and was originally educated at Pembroke Hall, 

 Cambridge ; whence he removed to Trinity College, Oxford, 

 before the breaking out of the civil-wars. On the commence- 

 ment of the rebellion, he came up to London, and practised 

 physic under the eminent Dr. John Bathurst, until 1046 ; when 

 he again returned to his college, and, through the recommen- 

 dation of Lord Fairfax, was created M.D. early in 1647. 

 In 1650 he was admitted a Fellow of the College of Phy- 

 sicians in London, where he resided in Aldersgate-street, 

 and remained in the city throughout the whole of the 

 last Plague of 1665. He died at his house on the 14th 

 of November, 1673. He published an excellent descrip. 

 tion of the Glands, written in Latin, which was printed at 

 London in 1656, 8 vo. Amsterd. 1659. Hawkins. Dr. Whar- 

 ton's name was not inserted in the text at this place till the 

 Edition of 1676: and the First is entirely without the eulogy 

 on water. It is worthy of remark, that the whole of these 

 passages relating to Hawking, Hunting, and Angling, are 

 copied almost verbatim, in a very popular and well known 

 work, entitled " The Gentleman's Recreation ;" of which the 

 first edition was printed in 1674, six years after the fourth edi- 



